The Power of Gratitude: Avoid the Scarcity Model

“Be grateful.” We hear this phrase all the time in a community of fellow seekers. After all, we all want to grow our financial success, and we all want to achieve spiritual peace. However, in these quests, we can lose track of what we already have. Throughout all of life’s highs and lows, this motto reminds us of the power of gratitude. No matter where we are in life, there is always something to be grateful for.

How the Scarcity Model Diminishes the Power of Gratitude

It’s easy to be grateful when it doesn’t really require a ton of effort, like saying “please” or “thank you.” Even when big things are going really well for us, it’s easier to pause and appreciate what we have around us. However, what about when things aren’t going quite as planned?

Everyone’s been there. The mind starts focusing on what’s wrong, what we are lacking, and what is just too much for us to deal with. We tend to overthink, making it even more difficult to overcome obstacles in order to reach our goals. In some ways, this is a natural response. When it becomes a habit, though, it can become a problem. At this point, the pity party is simply a safe choice rather than the right choice.

The truth is, it takes much more courage to appreciate what we have, no matter how little it may seem at the time. It’s much easier to surrender to the scarcity model and let ourselves off the hook from taking action because we feel like something isn’t enough. Our egos will tell us that if we spend too much time being grateful for what we have, we won’t try to get more, and we’ll become stuck being “content” instead of happy.

Avoiding the Scarcity Model

The scarcity model tells us that there simply aren’t enough resources to meet everyone’s wants and needs. At the end of the day, you may feel like you’re the one getting shorthanded. This isn’t necessarily the case though. By practicing the power of gratitude, you can avoid falling into the scarcity model trap.

Learning to appreciate what you currently have doesn’t mean you’re tricking yourself into “settling.” Just because you’re buying an economy car now because it’s more practical doesn’t mean you won’t want a Ferrari three years from now when you’re rich. Choose to be grateful that you own reliable transportation — regardless of whether or not it is flashy. There are plenty of people in this world that don’t have that at all.

The proactive mind continuously hungers for more, like a squirrel hoarding nuts for winter. The scarcity model allows us to constantly overlook and discount what’s right in front of us. To fight this, we have to consistently remind ourselves to look for what’s right in our lives instead of searching for what’s wrong.

With enough practice, we’ll be more likely to remember to show our appreciation to the people who are closest to us: our family, friends, loved-ones, co-workers, and employees. We’ll even start considering and appreciating the everyday strangers in our lives. From teachers to postal workers, these people make our day-to-day better and enrich our larger communities. Let’s not forget to say “thank you” to the Universe for our many blessings.

How Gratitude Affects Your Finances

Everyone should be grateful for and properly manage whatever wealth you have now, even if you don’t think it’s much. If you’re not appreciating what you already have, that means you’re not maximizing what’s available to you right now. If you can’t do that, then why should the Universe believe you can handle more?

Exercise: Power of Gratitude

Now that you’ve listened to me, I want you to put these ideas into practice. Declare your gratitude to the millionaire mind community with these simple steps:

Step 1: Think about things to be grateful for. To help, you can ask yourself these questions:

Who and what have you not fully appreciated?

What are some of the things that you tend to take for granted?

Step 2: List the people and things in your life for which you are grateful.

Step 3: Show your appreciation to the people who mean the most to you for all that you have.

For Your Freedom,

Maybe even after incorporating gratitude, you feel unhappy. If so, I want you to ask yourself these questions: Do you have everything that you want in life? Success? Inner peace? Amazing health? Fabulous relationships? If not, join me on one of my upcoming web classes, “Don’t Believe A Thought You Think,” where you’ll learn exactly how to have all the success, inner peace, health, relationships, etc. that you want and deserve.

I thank God for this simple but great teaching reminder important for spiritual growth….an eye-opening to what we have… showing how to appreciate everything we have and avoid falling into traps of the scarcity model…. thanks to you both….father and son…

Amazing Harv, thanks for changing my way of thinking about life, money, troubles and more. I don’t know how I have lost these advices such for a long time.!!!! I will keep reading theses emails that’s for sure. Please come to Costa Rica it will be very helpful there’s lot of people with the will for doing changes just maybe need a person like to encourage them. Greetings from Costa Rica.

The power of gratitude is more powerful when I’m connected whit my emotions naturally, in this way I can appreciate whit my hart all the people that are by my side.
Now I thank my wife, my daughters, my brother, my father in law, for all the thing and the guide that they have given me in this past years.
And over all I thank to GOD for the direction that he gave me.

I think it makes a lot of sense but sadly is not the way our mind use tu work, so the challenge is to break that pattern and start by constantly remind ourselves to thank, to appreciate all those things we tend to take for granted.

I am grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ, creator of the universe and the earth, for His great, great love, His favor, and His blessings over my life. I am thankful He’s taken me out of the kingdom of darkness and adopted me as His son. I am thankful that I have hope for eternity, and an adventure while living on this earth.

Yes, thank you for this important tool. I have had a hard time lately being in the feeling of gratitude. Life has lent some hard blows recently which has galvanized my need to speak out and make immediate changes in my life. The anger which has created this move forward has blocked any type of gratitude. I am finding as I make these changes and the anger subsides the gratitude is beginning to trickle back in little by little.

Hi Rhonda.. Last year i was in the same situation and, at the begining, it was kind of difficult to change my feeling because mind drives you to over think the same dark things, and when you focus on something you give power to that something, so the only thing that i got was to revive those feeling. One day, reading about the power of gratitude, seeing images of gratitud jars y decided to start thanking every night for what i already have and my energy start to change, i realized that is better to be focus for what i have in place of what i dont, that i do have reasons to be happy and that switch of mind drived me to thing that i can do it, that i can change my situation or change myself, that I should keep what is nice for me and let go what doesn´t. and suddenly you find yourself thanking for that nasty situation that made you grow up and for that you havn´t get jet., and you really start to feel that power to get what you want. Keep trying Rhonda, maybe just letting somethings go ill help you.

All throughout my life I’m very grateful to God as my Abba & Great Provider. But honesty aside it’s hard to unmask the bitterness i’m harboring for some people who are pulling me down from my career ladder. Convinced by the power of gratitude, I renounce bitterness & instead it’s now my stepping stone to my multi million success Thank you. I’m very grateful.

I’ve been gratiful with my mom, dad, brothers, sisters, my girlfrien, and the others thinks are in future until now, like a my new car, my new deparment, my new money, etc, thinks that I don’t have right now.

Thank you very much for explaining the value of gratitude.
I am thankful to the God who has been with me every moment.Thankful to my parents who are responsible for my birth and support they gave me through out my life.Thankful to my wife,children, friends,servants and every one who are responsible for my happy life.Thankful to all my teachers who gave me wisdom.

Thankful to the universe for providing everything needed before asking.

First of all thanks God because He shaw me the light to follow ( you Harv one beam of this light). Then my parent for supporting me all my life. My family who are around me all the time.Every person help me either by his or her positivity or negativity .
I appreciate every thing.
In my religion asay: having little is always more than nothing.
Thank again Harv Thanks Jesse

I have a great many things to be grateful for right now! From my loving family and friends to having a roof over my head and plenty of food on my table and that I have the ability to raise a wonderful son and share my gifts with the world.
I now am willing to take this gratitude to the next level and remind myself to constantly thank the everyday and mundane things that we don’t even think about. As I was reading this I thought about yesterday how I was at Target and doing the self check out for a few things and made eye contact with the woman who was working the area who, honestly, was looking very tired. And I looked her in the eye and said “Thank you very much for all your help.” even though I was the one who did everything. Her face lit up so much and she said your welcome and have a great day. It was an amazing interaction and it’s one I want to keep repeating.

It’s Budda’s philosophy, not to expect anything from anybody and to be gratefull for any kindness from their side.
We are usuallly focusing on a single, even small bad thing forgetting many good, common that we see everyday. Do in reverse be gratefull for any small good thing that you face each day.

I am just grateful to my Source, my Creator for being, for my life and all who are in it, for who I am. Without Him, I would not be part of this Millionaire Mind community.
I am grateful to Harv, his team and his family for sharing these powerful principles with us. He thinks he is a multi-millionaire? God isn’t done with him – more blessings of multiplication abound!
I am grateful for the commitment I have to being a millionaire and more!

Actually, I am very greatful that I met someone in Quebec city in last April that I saw again 3 weeks ago and he gave me a wonderful gift: Your book Harv “Secret of the millionaire mind” that I read in 3 days afterwards. This is exactly the message I needed to read at this time in my life. Thank you for your authenticity and to share all your experiences.

Hello Everbody,
i declare that i am grateful first of all to GOD, the Father Almighty, Who gave us the daily breathe of life. I am Grateful that I have my husbands that supports me all the time, and my children that making me smile every morning of my life, I am grateful for those who helped me and continuous helping us in our journey of life: my mother my sisters my cousins.

Thank you so much, I do REALLY appreciate all of your efforts, your presence when I am happy and most of the time when I am feeling blue!.

I am Grateful to GOD for everything in my life, Happiness in my life, peace in my life, Love in my life.
I am Grateful to my Parents for all the love and affection they shower on me every moment, grateful for my wonderful health, fitness and abundance of energy I have,
I am grateful for wonderful family and good people around me, grateful for wonderful house I live in, wonderful city i live in.
I am thankful to almighty for my good character, intelligence, honesty, supporting people. I am thankful all the people I interact daily and support i receive daily,
I am grateful for my successful career, wonderful earning, and daily value addition in my life, and encourages me to do more..

This article made me realize I need to more thankful for my job, even though I may want a change at least I have a job. I am thankful for god leading me to this millionaire mind opportunity. I am also thankful for my family, my husband and my children. I know I am truly blessed and god has good things in store for me.

Thank God for connecting me with Mandela. He gave the reasons to be more Valuable to the world and that has given birth with some level of commitment to other resourceful relationships in my life. I’m so grateful for meeting Lolo Foy, T harv Ekar, Banjo, Doc Idem, funmilayo who have inspired me to be more proactive everyday of my life.

Thank you so much for making me realize that I need to be grateful….. And this day am grateful to God for giving me a beautiful family, life, relationship, business and in all for making my man love me so so much! I want to say a big thank you to T. Harv Eker for making me see the beauty in being grateful….. I love you sir

I am grateful for having a life .I am grateful for having a wife, I mam grateful for having my kids, I am grateful for having food to eat. income to support my family. I am grateful I am grateful till I fall asleep and wake up, be grateful for having woken up and the opportunity to enjoy an other day. My daily gratitude mantra.

Thanks universe for allowing everyday a new oportunity te reach my goals. Thank you for surrounding me by beautiful people that are generous and loving. Thank you for providing me with all sort of tools that help me on my way. Thank you for giving me the oportunity of feeling truly grateful!

I am grateful for my family, friends, the nutritious food that I eat and the streams of income that I enjoy. I appreciate all the people whom I continue to use as mentors, including Harv. May they be blessed a million times over. I am grateful for this journery of entreprenuership.
I do, however, tend to not appreciate my own abilities which I am sure, Iike most people, are pretty admirable.

I’m grateful for my life.my sons ,family ,friends and all those who for any reason have crossed in my life. for you T. Harv Eker because your way of thinking made me change minegave me a wider vision and a diferent point of view.thanks a lot T. Harv Eker and God bless you.

Thanks Harv. I have been keeping a ‘gratitudes book” for the past 6 months. I enter a minimum of 3 things for which I am grateful each morning. It is a great exercise to train my mind to see the good things in my life. I have also set what I call an “intention alarm” which goes off to a pleasant sound and is labeled “GRATEFUL”, reminding me once a day to be grateful.

Am so grateful that am receiving this wonderful teaching, am so grateful for my great health, my family, my parents who have unconditionally loved and raised me, my career that has always supported me, am so grateful to God for enabling a lot in my life. I’m grateful to my friend kibuuka Michael for recommending me this wonderful book of secrets of millionaires mind.

I’m grateful to be alive, for life with the ones I love more than everything. Thanks to the power of gratitude I manage to keep away bad thoughts since that car accident, really don’t wanna take care of that scarcity model ’cause it won’t take me anywhere, specificaly not where I wanna go !!
Thank you so much !! Can’t wait for the Webinar !!

I am slowly but surely moving our of the scarcity mode. It stàrted when I gave a few coins to the carpark guides helping with finding empty parking bays. I then noticed that I was able have more to contribute àt the collection plate at church, as well as more food on the table. This action of giving creates a reason for being grateful as now I more left in my pocket to do more. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the act of giving.

I am greatful to God for his making me to know t Harv and for the life he give me and my family and I so thank God for this great opportunity, thank he from where he told me from and he is bought me and also where he is taking me I know that one day I will be very very rich in the name of Lord jusus christ Amen

The only scarcity is of more good in humans heart. There is too much available to everyone. Life is fulfilled with abundance.

I’m grateful for my self to be here now experiencing this world.
For my family, relatives, friends.
For the people I relate to some how through out the day.
Specially all the professionals that have crossed my path.
For those people that give their best to help others.
For all that has ever been created and developed to help man kind.
For all that there is in the world.
For the universe
To God.

We can, and we should be grateful for Everything >>>>> For it is the only way. These are exactly the words I posted on my whatsapp status this morning, even before reading this mail. Harv and Jesse Eker what a nice job u guys are doing. It feels rIght doing this and it’s really helpful. Am glad I singed up for this challenge.

I am so grateful for my five boys, and that my body could handel every pregnancy and birth so well. And i am also grateful to have a nice husband and the rest of my family and the nice strong wind blowing here in Schleswig-Holstein
Thank you thank you

hello thank you for sharing such a wonderful class where they give a very important key to success, perhaps many people are carried away by external circumstances and only think of it because we allow the urgency is greater than the important and by attending to the urgent we forget give thanks to the maker of all things, to this wonderful universe with its creative energy and forget that it accompanies us in every moment and does not sustain as the valuable air we breathe and gives us opportunities such as scientific knowledge and abundant mineral and natural wealth on our planet, if we are honest there is much to be grateful for, starting with life, learning, experiences, people known, present opportunities and even those to come, grateful renews our hopes for life and fills us with a vibrant and creative energy that makes us feel alive and that the impossible we can do ible that is called living and I love living so I thank everyone and GOD first for being there at every moment of my life and I know that there is still more and for that bright future of great prosperity good health and wealth I also thank you that will be part of my life of that I have no doubts.
as for the shortage who thinks of it as a model of life is a mistake because that far from being predictive only attracts more scarcity and more misfortunes, makes you prisoner of emergencies and you forget to live so that lifestyle alone attracts poverty I do not want it
so between gratitude and scarcity I prefer gratitude

I am obviously grateful for my faith (God), my family, my partner, my pets, my friends and my passion (performing arts). However, I am also grateful for what I often take for granted, including a roof over my head (house), a bed to sleep, food to eat (and my partner prepares and cook incredible meals), clothes to wear, a phone, a computer, and many ways to entertain myself daily (TV, music, books). Thank you T. Harv for reminding us to show gratitude even at times when it seems that obstacles become overwhelming and life seems to become too challenging. Even in the darkest of times (the recent Las Vegas tragedy), I am grateful for the life I have and I refuse to live in fear (I am actually traveling to the Las Vegas strip for business this month). Even through the roughest of times, we can still find gratefulness in ourselves, each other, our planet, our universe and beyond.

I am very grateful to my wife, my mother, my brother Alexander and Novani. Sometimes my wife I take her for granted. I am very blessed to this people because they loved me so much even I have so many mistakes in life. Thank you very much my family. I love You

I am grateful for my life. I am blessed with tons of family to whom i adore. I am truly blessed to have married my soul mate and to go on to have 3 beautiful girls. i am grateful to have found your book and to have joined this community. Thank you and your son for doing all the greatness that you guys do.
Thanks
Walter

Thank you for sharing such wonderful article. I didn’t understand from where to start to express my gratitude because every person who comes in your life definitely makes difference. If positive difference is there you should thanks him/her making you happy. If negative difference is there, it is lifetime learning experience for you. For that one should thanks him/her.
Hence thanks God, universe, my family, relatives, friends and whomever added value in life.

I am grateful to God Almighty for His mercy and for the gift of life. I thank God for my family ,for my business, for where I am today and for He is taking me to. I know that my tomorrow will be far far better than my today. Am grateful for being connected to Harv. Eker and his team. Thank you so very much. You guys are doing great job

Makes total sense. My folks were born & raised during the Depression. Their families didn’t come from much as it was, farm folk & such, so my parents grow up on scarcity. My memories of my youth are actually of abundance, but also the stories of their lack.
That fits w/my life now. I have felt we come for lack & struggle, but my eyes have been opened to the abundance & wealth I live actually live in. Now that I see the blessings of abundance I am truly grateful for what I have been given & I know more is coming to me.
I look back at where I started, as a teen going into the world. I have come a long way & that tells me the adventure is ongoing.
I am so grateful for those who have helped me see the abundance I live in!! I’m grateful for the abundance that surrounds me & energizes me every moment!! I’m grateful for the abundance still to come!!!

I am greatfull reading your book as it is opening a new door and perspective on witch way to go next. I am greatfull To have my family and great friands. I am Also greatfull To have the chance be alive.

Displaying gratitude is actually a concept a learned a while back and I try to always say thank you in my morning prayers before ever asking for anything. I’m always grateful first and then I ask for help, comfort, blessings, etc. 🙂

Thank you for opening my eyes about thanking the people that are surrounding me and what I have in my life. I been complaining and blaming others for my incompetence instead of being kind for what they are bringing into my life.
Bonsoir du Canada.

Thank you for opening my eyes about thanking the people that are surrounding me and what I have in my life. I been complaining and blaming others for my incompetence instead of being kind for what they are bringing into my life.
Bonsoir from Canada.

I’m so grateful for a loving family that is always there for one another and for my health which a few short years ago was declining daily. When I learned to take care of myself first my health improved and so did my ability to help others. Thanks be to my Heavenly Father!

I’ve experienced the power of gratitude in my relationship with my husband. The more grateful I am the more amazing our relationship is. I know I am reprogramming my mind because of the results our relationship. The other end the scale being the scarcity model and I can see the results I have in life with my finances, it’s obvious that’s what is running the show. I know express gratitude while paying my bills, for having the money to do so, gratitude that I am able to buy food so the I can eat every day and so on. I’ll let you know the results.

Hi everyone,
For 2 or 3 years now I have had an app called bliss that is a gratitude journal Each start of the year I vowed to do it daily and after a while I forgot or was to busy. This year my resolution was simple, to make healthy choices and that included this gratitude journal, It seems to work, I’m writing in it each day, and at first it was sometimes hard to find things to be grateful for, now I have 1,2,3 even 4 things that I am grateful for, It feels good to be grateful and it is also great to realize just how lucky I am to have all that I already have, instead of focusing on what I don’t have. So thank you Harv for this reminder to be thankful for all that we have.

First of all thanks God for all the blessings and upcoming blessings happening in my life, for my family of course thank you for the love everyday and to everyone I met thank you for making me happy.
Thank you Harv for your pieces of advice. It pursue me to strive to become better than I am today. Hoping to learn from you everyday. God bless you more.

I am grateful to you harv for sharing such valuable information in your book ‘the millionaire mind. I never realized how many self defeating thoughts and behaviors I had stopping me from living my dreams. Thank u so much for empowering me and opening my eyes. I am grateful to the 21 step business program for giving me the opportunity to have my own business and teaching me how to be successful. I am grateful for my beautiful son for making my life a joy. I am grateful to my very best friend Stacey for believing in me and always supporting me. I thank all of you for enriching my life from the bottom of my heart.

To be grateful is one of my favorite things after reading Joe Vitale’s book “Life Without Limits”. Everyday I say Thanks everyone including myself and everything. Before most things I took as granted untill my eyes opened. Thank you Harv and your son so much for this amazing teaching.

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